lose life

Example Sentences

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The judge ruled the department failed to properly consider the impact on elderly people who could potentially lose life savings to meet health costs.

From BBC • Jul. 4, 2023

She called on the U.S. to “use its leverage,” adding “way too many people lose life daily” in Afghanistan.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 8, 2021

Especially since, as a religion, it asks us to sell all we have, to renounce this world, to lose life itself.

From Time Magazine Archive

By God that was too much!—That was the last straw that breaks the camel's heart—and Colonel Dearman would have his revenge or lose life, honour, and wealth in the attempt.

From Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life by Wren, Percival Christopher

To lose life and self-respect together was more than I could face.

From Uncle Bernac A Memory of the Empire by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir